Sentences with phrase «measurements of the abundance»

I give a clue: Natural gas does not exist stably in place, subject to simple measurement of its abundance.

Not exact matches

I've had an abundance of pecans around lately due to the fact that I grossly misjudge volume measurements while shopping in bulk.

AN OPTICAL illusion has enabled the most precise measurement yet of the abundance of the mysterious dark energy, which is thought to be accelerating the universe's expansion.

After a statistical analysis of the insects» body measurements and colors, as well as their abundance and ability to trick both humans and birds, the authors discarded most of the existing explanations.

In addition, they estimate the impact of other sources of error on the mRNA and protein abundance measurements using direct experimental data, and they find that, when error is explicitly measured and modeled, an even greater correlation between mRNA and protein is expected.

Analyzing sensor data and field measurements, Cohen and his students have found new clues for the algal abundance, such as declining concentrations of dissolved oxygen and the role of snails in keeping springs clear.

While measurements of aerosol absorption in ultraviolet do not differentiate between the smoke, dust and ash aerosols, only volcanic clouds contain significant abundances of SO2, so satellite measurements of SO2 are especially valuable for unambiguous identification of volcanic clouds.

Richardson and his colleagues found that the combined data from the two plastid markers, rbcL and matK, successfully correlated with microscopic measurements of pollen abundance.

Measurements of surface chemical composition, either by direct sampling (as has been done on Earth, the moon, and Mars) or through spectroscopic observations, can be used to estimate elemental abundances and the degree of chemical differentiation that occurred as the planets condensed from the solar nebula.

Geochemical records from measurements of the foraminifera shells and fauna analyses will help us evaluate the changes in methane emissions, while studies of living and fossil species distribution and abundance of the benthic foraminifera community in methane seep areas will indicate the degree of methane release through time.

«Optical measurements of the beryllium and boron abundances in halo stars have been achieved by the 10 meter KECK telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope.

1:20 PM Liu - Abundance Studies of Stellar Hosts of Terrestrial Planets 1:40 PM Kitiashvili - 3D Realistic Modeling of Stellar Convection as a Tool to Study Effects of Stellar Jitter on RV Measurements 2:00 PM Crossfield - Planet Densities (invited) 2:30 PM Break and Poster Viewing 3:00 PM Guyon - Coronagraphs for Planet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - Summary

Currently the team is concentrating on extrasolar planet discovery and characterization, precision measurement of stellar chemical abundances, and precise mapping of the Milky Way and of large - scale cosmological structure.

However, the most surprising measurement is the abundance of cargo room.

The measurements showed a seasonal increase in radiocarbon abundance in the summers and declines in the winters, particularly in the first year of sampling (2010).

This is what the ESRL had to say about satellite - based COs sensing and I quote «Greenhouse gas abundances derived from optical absorption measurements from space can never be calibrated because one can not control the abundance of the gases being estimated, nor can we control potential interfering factors in the optical path.»

I worked on intensity measurements of spectral features in the near - infrared for carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, and water vapor, to help determine abundances of these gases in the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Titan.

The changes in the atmospheric abundance of individual gases are shown in the lower panels using a combination of direct atmospheric measurements, estimates of historical abundance, and future projections of abundance.

The measurements have continued after Keeling's death, and show an unbroken record of rising carbon dioxide abundance extending over fifty years.

The urban and regional abundance of NOx has generally increased with industrialisation, but the global abundance of this short - lived, highly variable pollutant can not be derived from measurements.

A major conclusion of this report is that atmospheric abundances of almost all greenhouse gases reached the highest values in their measurement records during the 1990s:

However, past studies of such Arctic mixed - phase clouds have been unable to explain the measured abundance of ice crystals larger than 100 micrometers in maximum dimension (the size range where measurements are available), given observed environmental conditions and the measured concentrations of ice nuclei that could be entrained into the observed shallow cloud layers from aloft.